Ryan Chabot

The Inhumanity of man, a poem of dark irony:


I wanted to bring one thing to remind me of the good times
Where are we, where are we?
I don’t think we are going to the vineyard, we just passed the border into Poland
It was a very strange name…Auschwitz
Many sick tests were performed
Their Hatred was so blind

In less than four to six weeks, 438,000 jews were sent to Auschwitz
I will not go too their gas chambers
They are not going to take my sons
There were 2 wars: One real war and one against the Jews
Pits were dug out in the field to burn them all
I saw my friends…I told them they were going to die…I told them to stand up front so they die fast

And they never any more screamed
Burning Human beings
40 Boxcars full of dead bodies
They shoot all of them…they killed 600 people
It is almost Shabat, but........
Where is god?


Reason:
I chose the theme of revealing the inhumanity of “man” through the eyes of these people who survived the holocaust. The definition of humanity is the quality or condition of being human, which makes Hitler and all of his followers walking contradictions because what they put these Jews through was not human at all. They tortured and killed millions of innocent people for the reason that “the Jews are the reason for all of Germany’s problems”, which couldn’t be further from the truth. The Jews were simply a scapegoat and these survivors helped us see that what they went through was far worse than we could imagine.